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92_HB2026ham002
LRB9204177RCsbam
1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2026
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2026, AS AMENDED,
3 by replacing all of subsection (d) of Sec. 4.1 of Section 2
4 with the following:
5 "(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
6 investigation of a foster family home license applicant
7 conducted under this Act or a determination made with regard
8 to a foster family home license application may consider or
9 include any conviction (or disposition of supervision) of an
10 applicant or of a person who resides in the household of the
11 applicant for any misdemeanor, business offense, or petty
12 offense if the offense occurred more than 15 years before the
13 filing of the foster family home license application and the
14 offense was not a sex offense, an offense involving bodily
15 harm, or a child-related offense. The conviction (or
16 disposition of supervision) of an applicant or of a person
17 who resides in the household of the applicant for a foster
18 family home license for any misdemeanor, business offense, or
19 petty offense that occurred more than 15 years before the
20 filing of the application and was not a sex offense, an
21 offense involving bodily harm, or a child-related offense may
22 be considered but is not a disqualification to approval of
23 the foster family home license application; provided, that
24 the applicant or person residing in the applicant's household
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1 has not been convicted of or placed on supervision for a
2 subsequent offense. In the case of any conflict between this
3 subsection (d) and any other provision of law, this
4 subsection (d) controls."; and
5 by replacing all of the underscored language in subsection A.
6 of Sec. 6 of Section 5 with the following:
7 "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
8 investigation conducted under this Act or a report of
9 investigation may consider or include any conviction (or
10 disposition of supervision) of a petitioner or of a person
11 who resides in the household of a petitioner for any
12 misdemeanor, business offense, or petty offense if the
13 offense occurred more than 15 years before the filing of the
14 petition for adoption and the offense was not a sex offense,
15 an offense involving bodily harm, or a child-related offense.
16 The conviction (or disposition of supervision) of a
17 petitioner or of a person who resides in the household of the
18 petitioner for any misdemeanor, business offense, or petty
19 offense that occurred more than 15 years before the filing
20 of the petition for adoption and that was not a sex offense,
21 an offense involving bodily harm, or a child-related offense
22 may be considered but is not a disqualification to adoption
23 of a child by the petitioner; provided, that the petitioner
24 or a person residing in the household of the petitioner has
25 not been convicted of or placed on supervision for a
26 subsequent offense.".